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This newspaper devoted a great deal of space this past week probing charges of academic misconduct against Ward Churchill, and not everyone of course had time to read it all. But if you examined even two or three stories and scanned the rest, we bet you reached the same conclusion we have: There is no way the University of Colorado can permit Churchill to remain on its staff without indicting the scholarship of every other professor. If Churchill's shoddy work is not beyond the pale, then the integrity of all research at the university is in doubt. All the facts...

I’m beginning to see Ward Churchill as the carny in the dunking booth, who hurls insults at the crowd, and then howls with outrage when he gets soaked. Yes, the unenlightened were out to get you. Yes, the system was rigged against you by the power structure. No argument there. But should anyone care? For the second time in the new millennium, a university professor has come under heavy fire from the political right, and is in danger of losing his job as a consequence. The most prominent dispute in recent years concerned the scholarship of Michael Bellesiles, a history...

Churchill warms to the hated dollar By David Harsanyi Denver Post Staff Writer Where have all the radicals gone? Remember when McCarthyism was fun? When we had courageous, if foolish, adversaries? No more. Turns out that those trigger fingers Ward Churchill so warmly spoke of were his index finger and thumb - you know, the ones he can use to sign a generous CU buyout. We misunderstood the context. As we speak, I expect Churchill is busy adding an epilogue to his latest masterpiece: "On the Justice of Roosting Chickens: Reflections on the Consequences of U.S. Arrogance, or How I...

By Laura Frank, Rocky Mountain News March 14, 2005 Ward Churchill says he didn't write the essay at the center of plagiarism allegations against him by a Canadian professor. University of Colorado regents last week were set to offer Churchill a buyout when they received a 1997 internal report by Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia, detailing the accusations. Churchill says the essay in question was a "collectively authored piece." He refused to name any authors of the essay, which appeared under the name Institute for Natural Progress in a 1992 book edited by Churchill's former wife. The INP is a...

O'Reilly plan drafted by EWU By Troy Kirby, Managing Editor February 22, 2005 Plans were presented to the university Feb. 2 to invite Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly to debate University of Colorado Professor Ward Churchill during Native American Awareness Week April 5, said David Rey, university media relations specialist. Rey said in an interview with The Easterner Feb. 22 he composed the plans in an unsigned memo called “The O’Reilly Solution,” after a national controversy erupted over Churchill’s “little Eichmanns” referrence to World Trade Center victims, and the university learned Churchill was scheduled to lecture at the Cheney campus. EWU...

Professor Ward Churchill is a traitor, in my estimation: that's the subject of this evening's "Talking Points Memo". The radical University of Colorado professor continues to speak around the country, getting paid for telling people that the civilians in the World Trade Center on 9/11 were legitimate military targets for Al Qaeda. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) WARD CHURCHILL, PROFESSOR, UNIV. OF COLORADO: Well, you know now, the Central Intelligence Agency had located facilities in the World Trade Center. The Defense Department had located facilities in the World Trade Center. There were other entities that could be considered part of command and...

Starbulletin.com Wednesday, February 23, 2005 "I never wanted to be a poster boy for academic freedom. You can't give an inch. If you let this one down, you've lost it all." Ward Churchill Visiting University of Colorado professor LUCY PEMONI / STAR-BULLETIN Protesters made their opinions known last night outside the entrance of the auditorium where University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill delivered his speech on the University of Hawaii at Manoa campus. Churchill attacks essay’s critics University of Colorado president calls for calm By Craig Gima cgima@starbulletin.com Ward Churchill, the outspoken Colorado professor who created a national uproar by...

"...This essay analyzes Ward Churchill’s accusations that the US Army perpetuated genocide. Churchill argues that the US Army created a smallpox epidemic among the Mandan people in 1837 by distributing infected blankets. While there was a smallpox epidemic on the Plains in 1837—historians agree, and all evidence points to the fact—that it was accidental, and the Army wasn’t involved...Situating Churchill’s rendition of the epidemic in a broader historiographical analysis, one must reluctantly conclude that Churchill fabricated the most crucial details of his genocide story. Churchill radically misrepresented the sources he cites in support of his genocide charges, sources which say...

Report: CU May Offer Churchill Early Retirement 200 CU Teachers Ask That Inquiry Into Churchill Be Dropped POSTED: 3:49 pm MST February 26, 2005 UPDATED: 4:58 pm MST February 26, 2005 BOULDER, Colo. -- Officials with the University of Colorado are reportedly considering offering controversial professor Ward Churchill an early retirement package.The Denver Post reports the deal is in the very early stages.A three person panel is scheduled to deliver a report on Churchill's tenure. Churchill became the center of a national uproar after people started reading one of his essays, comparing some victims of the Sept. 11, 2001,...

University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill speaks during a public lecture entitled 'Speaking Truth to Power: Academic Freedom in the Age of Terror,' at the University of Hawaii campus in Honolulu, Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2005. Churchill, criticized for his comments likening some Sept. 11 victims to Nazis, defended his position before an overflow crowd Tuesday night at the University of Hawaii, saying the attack on the World Trade Center was inevitable given U.S. international and economic policies. (AP Photo/Ronen Zilberman)